"What do you think, Strategist?"

Zhang Fei saw that Ma Chao asked to take a step ahead of the light horse, and couldn't help but look at Fa Zheng behind him, who was urging the horse to slow down.

He, like Pound, is the commander-in-chief, but there are superintendents in the army, and he is not the one who is in charge.

Hearing this, Fa Zheng groaned: "I originally wanted to lead the army to Yangping Pass together and catch Xiahou Yuan off guard. Meng Qi, if you send troops first, it will be a surprise.

However, I didn't expect the road to be so rugged and difficult, and the snow in the mountains had not melted in early March, making the road muddy and impassable, so that the journey was a few days later than expected.

Since the situation is not optimistic for Pang De now, Meng Qi, you should go, otherwise once Yangping Pass is lost, our dispatch of troops this time will be meaningless. It's better to beat the grass and scare the snake than to lose the Yangping Pass! ”

"Without further ado, I'll lead my troops!" Ma Chao got Fa Zheng's approval, and immediately led the 3,000 cavalry of his headquarters to Yangping Pass.

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On the side of Yangping Pass, more than ten days have passed since Xiahou Yuan led his troops to attack the Hanzhong military camp.

When Xiahou Yuan sent his troops, he swore that he would take Yangping Pass within three days, but now ten days have passed, and his army still hasn't even touched the gate of Yangping Pass.

However, on the side of the Hanzhong army, under the fierce attack of the Cao army, it was already the end of the strong crossbow.

Initially, Pound divided each battalion of soldiers into three divisions, each with more than 300 men taking turns to defend.

By the third day.

In each battalion, each division lost dozens of men, and each division had only more than 200 men left, and it was no longer possible to defend the camp.

Pound had no choice but to divide three men into two, each with nearly 400 people, taking turns to defend.

By the eighth day, there were two men in each battalion, and one was reduced in number to just over 200 men, most of whom were wounded, so Pound had no choice but to merge the two into one.

It was now the tenth day, and only one of the defenders of the battalions had been combined in a row, and there were no soldiers and horses to replace the defense, and they had been fighting continuously for a day and a night.

There were seven camps with more than 6,000 people, and now there are only two or three hundred people left in each battalion, adding up to less than 2,000 people.

The casualties on the Cao side were even heavier, they were the attacking side, with more than 6,000 casualties, 2,000 more than the Hanzhong army.

In the blink of an eye, it was early morning on the eleventh day, on the plain outside Yangping Pass, Xiahou Yuan was in the middle army, and his face was extremely cold.

Xiahou Yuan pulled out the sword at his waist, pointed at the Yangping Pass in front of him and shouted angrily: "In order to seize Yangping Pass, our army has suffered more than 6,000 casualties, and now among the battalions of the Hanzhong Army, the defenders are less than 300. I have equipped you with soldiers who have stayed in the camp and have never fought, they are all elite, today, you must conquer the camps in one go, kill Pang De, and capture Yangping Pass! ”

"No!" The generals will take the command.

"Kill me!" Guo Huai, Cao Zhen, Cao Chun, Zhang He, Xiahou Ba, Xiahou Cheng and other six generals each led a thousand people and launched an attack on the camp that Pang De thought.

This time, instead of supervising the battle in the rear, they personally took the lead in the charge.

The defenders of each battalion have been consumed to less than three hundred, and they have been fighting continuously for a day and a night, but the Cao army is the elite who did not participate in the battle, they are full of physical strength, and they are not much stronger than the Hanzhong army, which is already at the end of the crossbow.

Xiahou Yuan's third son, Xiahou, said that he was the most heroic, he took the lead, took the lead in breaking through the defense of a camp and entered the camp.

The elite Cao army then swarmed in, and the remaining two or three hundred defenders in the camp were already at the end of the strong crossbow, without the protection of the camp, they were not Cao Jun's opponents at all, but after a long time, they were all killed by the Cao army.

Subsequently, Zhang He, Cao Chun, Cao Zhen, Guo Huai, Xiahouba and other generals also conquered various camps one after another.

By noon, under Yangping Pass, all the camps were conquered except for the first Pang De camp.

"Father, the third camp has been conquered by me!"

"My son is heroic!"

"General, the second camp has been conquered, and the defenders have all been killed!"

"Okay, General Zhang deserves to be the general of our army."

"General......

The generals returned to the Chinese army one after another to report to Xiahou Yuan.

"Now only Pound Piff's camp is left unattacked!" Xiahou Yuan looked at Pang De's camp hatefully, and shouted: "All the soldiers will rest first, and after they are full of wine and food, give me Pound in one fell swoop!" I want to use Pound's head to pay tribute to the thousands of soldiers who died in our army during this time! ”

"No!"

In the camp of Pound.

Because Pound personally sat in the camp and personally commanded the soldiers, fewer soldiers were killed, and now there are more than 400 people left.

Cao Jun rested at noon, and the defenders of Pang De's camp also had a chance to breathe.

Taking advantage of this rare leisure, the Hanzhong army was eating food and replenishing physical strength, and in the left and right camps, fires were everywhere, and green smoke rose, and after the Cao army took the camp, it was burned.

Looking at the camps on the left and right, the soldiers desperately stuffed food into their mouths one by one, but their eyes were empty and there was no trace of life.

The rest of the camp had been breached, and the Cao army would charge them later, and they might be laid to rest there before sunset at the latest.

Boom!

At this moment, in the camp, there was a sudden muffled sound.

The soldiers turned to look, only to see a few soldiers carrying a coffin came over, Pound sat on a white horse, located next to the coffin, looked at the soldiers around and shouted: "Brothers, you have fought with me these days, and now there are only 400 of you left, and I Pound can have you brothers in this life, this life is enough." Later, I will charge the Cao army, and if I die in battle, you will surrender to the Cao army, and use this coffin to collect the corpse for me. ”

Hearing this, the first general was shocked and said: "General, you want to charge Cao Jun alone, this is not ......"

"Why am I, Pound, afraid of death?" Pang De smiled faintly and said: "Now that the camp is about to be destroyed, it can't be held no matter what." Instead of being breached by the enemy, it is better to take the initiative and kill a few more enemies. Alright, brothers, rest first, I, Pound, will go! ”

Pound said, urged the war horse, and ran out of the camp to the plain under the mountain.

"General, don't worry, I'll go with you!" Seeing this, a soldier hurriedly turned on his horse and followed Pound.

"I'll go too!"

"I'm going with the general!"

In a few moments, twenty-eight horsemen rode out with Pound.

The remaining more than 300 people don't have the courage to follow Pound, after all, no one is willing to give up their lives easily, if they can survive, they will naturally persevere until the last moment.

A soldier said with a ashamed face: "I still have a wife and children at home, I don't want to die, so go and shout for the general!" ”

"Let's go!" Everyone agreed, and then carried the drum rack and the coffin to the bottom of the hill of the camp.

Pang De had led more than 20 cavalry to run down the plain at this moment, rushing towards the Cao army, and when the soldiers saw this, they beat the war drums.

Knock knock knock......

The melodious sound of war drums sounded under Yangping Pass, like the last sad song of the hero......